His Girl Friday

Whoever had the bright idea to turn the Ben Hecht-Charles MacArthur play, The Front Page into a boy and girl comedy ought to get a Nobel Prize for comedy if such an award had been available at the time. Of... Full review

Cary Grant and Rosalind Russell make great sparring partners in "His Girl Friday," a remake of "The Front Page." Grant plays the conniving newspaper publisher Walter Johnson, and Rosalind Russell is the reporter Hildy Johnson, a woman this time, and... Full review

As if creating one comedic masterpiece with 1938's BRINGING UP BABY was not enough, director Howard Hawks returned to the same genre a scant two years later - and he somehow managed to rival even his own previous masterwork. Nominally... Full review

Charles McArthur and Ben Hecht met when both were reporters in Chicago during the 1920s. They created two of the funniest farces in American drama, TWENTIETH CENTURY (about theater people) and THE FRONT PAGE. The latter was based on their... Full review

Every good thing you've heard about this movie is true. It may very well be the fastest paced movie I've ever seen. Jerry Bruckheimer's most hyperbolic action movie ain't got nothing' on this one.Cary Grant and Rosalind Russell were a... Full review

If BRINGING UP BABY has rapid-fire dialogue and one crazy scene after the other, HIS GIRL Friday goes even faster and is 10 minutes shorter. A story not that un-similar to THE PHILADELPHIA STORY which deletes the scatterbrained socialites in... Full review

"His Gal Friday" is Howard Hawks' tribute to the brilliant play in which this film is based. Charles McGraw and Ben Hecht, two of the best writers of the era, paid tribute to the journalists that wrote for the American... Full review

This gloriously funny romp by Howard Hawks is rightly remembered as one of the fastest-talking movies ever made. Originally done as 'The Front Page', the play by Hecht and McArthur takes on new life here as the character of Hildy... Full review

I just finished watching the DVD of this first-class, semi-Screwball comedy in Columbia Classics beautiful transfer, and it absolutely made my day! What a movie! What a screenplay! The dialogue is better - more modern - in fact, than a... Full review

This screen adaptation of the Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur play "The Front Page" was adapted for the talents of Cary Grant and Rosalind Russell -- there is no such character as Hildy Johnson (Russell) in that play.Director Howard Hawks... Full review

You need Howard Hawks' classic His Girl Friday , which is playing right now on SlashControl.....This movie is especially poignant to watch now in the waning days of the newspaper industry.....At least they've been preserved in the background of so many movies as good as His Girl Friday .....Cary Grant's Walter Burns loves her for her byline makes him one of the sexiest men of all time..... ... Full Review

I always felt that "His Girl Friday" mistakes sarcasm and putdowns for genuine comedy. Yes, I am well aware that the film is considered one of the great works of screen comedy, it has been cited on numerous lists as being one of the funniest flicks of all time, it is listed on the Library of Congress's National Film Registry, etc. But, quite frankly, I never found the film to be all that wonderful. ... Full Review

It's great "business" and sublime direction... The film boasts a marvellous cast in character support: Gene Lockhart as Sheriff Hartwell, Clarence Kolb as the corrupt mayor, the familiar faces of Roscoe Karns, Regis Toomey and Frank Jenks as colourful hacks. ... Full Review

Continuing to fulfill his promise to be the next Cary Grant, the actor's loose charisma is in top form. But "Leatherheads", with its jazzy soundtrack and playful, bloodless fisticuffs, is a welcome respite from most else in multiplexes this season. ... Full Review

This is a huge problem, I think, because there's absolutely no urgency to the breaking-story narrative, and without Grant to bounce off of, a little Rosalind Russell, frankly, goes a long way. The version of the film available online is imperfect; when I tried to watch it, the audio slipped out of sync quite a few times. ... Full Review

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We know how it is: You'd like to go to the movies this weekend, but have you seen the price of a ticket these days? ... Full Article

At last count YouTube listed seven pages of fan videos under the subject heading Huddy, the Brangelina-ized coinage meant to designate the fractious love connection between Doctors Cuddy and House on the Fox series "House." ... Full Article

Newspaper movies have a proud tradition, one that goes at least as far back as 1931's The Front Page. Over the years, it has produced such crowd favorites as His Girl Friday (1940), Deadline USA (1952) and Absence of Malice... ... Full Article

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The image of the tough 1940s newswoman, as exemplified in the movie "His Girl Friday," fit Margaret Egan to a T. The redhead used a combination of charm, assertiveness and connections in covering the macho world of the police beat... ... Full Article